runway

Runway: Aleph 2.0

runway/aleph-2

Our take

AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.

OpenRouter's catalog lists runway/aleph-2 as Runway: Aleph 2.0, a Runway video-editing model whose canonical entry is runway/aleph-2-20260729. The catalog describes it as an in-context editor: it takes text, image, and video inputs and returns video, applying text instructions and keyframe-guided changes to existing footage while trying to preserve details that should not change. These are source-reported capabilities, not measured results. No benchmark data was populated in this source pack, and an independent model card was not available, so workload validation remains necessary.[1]

Strengths

Catalog-reported in-context editing of existing video from text instructions.[1]
Accepts text, image, and video inputs and produces video output.[1]
Catalog says keyframe-guided edits are meant to leave unrelated footage details intact.[1]

Limitations

Evidence is catalog-only; no independent model card was available in this source pack.[1]
No benchmark results were populated, so quality and reliability are unverified here.[1]
Context length, supported parameters, and reasoning status are not usefully reported; validate workload fit directly.[1]

Where to use it

A candidate for instruction-driven edits to existing clips where surrounding content should stay stable.[1]
Potentially useful when a keyframe or reference image should steer a video change.[1]
Worth piloting for preservation-sensitive retouches before relying on it for production edits.[1]

Sources

[1] OpenRouter catalog · Runway: Aleph 2.0Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026

About this model

Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.

Runway Aleph 2.0 is an in-context video editing model from Runway. It applies text instructions and keyframe-guided edits across existing footage while preserving details that are not meant to change....

Specifications

Model ID: runway/aleph-2
Canonical ID: runway/aleph-2-20260729
Creator: runway
Added to OpenRouter: 29.07.2026
Context length: 0
Modality: text+image+video->video
Input modalities: text, image, video
Output modalities: video
Token pricing: No per-token price in the source snapshot — see OpenRouter for the billing unit
Knowledge cutoff: —
Expiration date: —

Tasks and capabilities

A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.

Task	Grade	Source-declared capability
General quality	No measurement	—
Coding	No measurement	—
Agents	No measurement	—
Writing	No measurement	—
Reasoning	No measurement	—
Document analysis	No measurement	—
Vision	No measurement	input: image
Image generation	No measurement	—
Audio	No measurement	—
Video	No measurement	input: video · output: video
Embeddings	No measurement	—

Evaluations

No evaluations are supplied for this model.

How grades work

Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.

S — S — top 10% of the cohort
A — A — next 20% of the cohort
B — B — next 30% of the cohort
C — C — below the B band

Providers

Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.

Provider	Context length	Price in /1M	Price out /1M	Latency p50 (30m, s)	Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s)	Uptime (30m)
Runway	0	—	—	—	—	—

Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026

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